Slot-A Tbird 950 -- Overclocking?

[N8Magic]

I am looking at purchasing one of these to upgrade from a Slot A 500, and was wondering what these babies can do, and do you use a GFD to overclock them like the Classic Athlon's?

 

[h0vic]

All Slot A's require a GFD to unlock unless you want to mess around with soldering. I have a new K7OC GFD for sale for $25 if you're interested.

Are you going to sell that Slot A 500? I might be interested, but don't expect me to pay much. I just want a cheap CPU for my Slot A mobo.

 

[Rand]

Overclock using a GFD, as usual.

 

[N8Magic]

Thanks for the info on the GFD.

What kind of overclockage do you think I can get out of a 950 TBird? 1.1Ghz? 1.2 Ghz? or more?

As for the 500 chip, I am keeping it to replace my server that I have now, probably will pick up a cheep FIC or PCChips slot a board for it!

 

[Nutzo]

On the 950 CPU's you usually are limited by the speed of the cache chips. 950 Athlons run the cache at 1/3 the core speed. If you are lucky enough to have 350 Mhz cache chips, you should be able to overclock to at least 1050 Mhz. I doubt you could get the chip over 1100 Mhz unless you get really good cache chips.

If you have a motherboard that can run at 110 bus speed reliably, then that would get you the the best performance, and 110x9.5 is 1045 Mhz. No GFD needed.

 

[CTho9305]

if your mobo is not based on the KX133, but is based on the amd chipset, you could get a SlotA thunderbird (its a tbird in a cartridge basically) that might not be cache limited. If the mobo is KX133 though, make sure you dont get a tbird b/c kx133 + tbird >800mhz = "timing issues"